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stabbing

[ stab-ing ]

adjective

  1. penetrating; piercing:

    a stabbing pain.

  2. emotionally wounding:

    a stabbing remark.

  3. incisive or trenchant:

    a stabbing, satirical phrase.



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Other Word Forms

  • ٲbԲ· adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of stabbing1

First recorded in 1590–1600; stab + -ing 2
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Example Sentences

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One student has been killed and at least three people were injured in stabbing at a private school in western France, French media say.

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China has executed a man for fatally stabbing a 10-year-old Japanese boy last September, the Japanese embassy in China has told the BBC.

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The Metropolitan Police, along with London Ambulance Service and London's Air Ambulance, responded to reports of a stabbing at an address in Ayley Croft in Enfield.

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I want to ask you one more thing, I read an interview where you said that your "Drop" director, Christopher Landon, didn't think that you were doing a good enough job with stabbing at first.

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Thousand Oaks is mourning Wesley Welling, 15, killed in what officials have called an intentional crash by a suspect also linked to a stabbing and a domestic incident.

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